Untitled (DS585) (Q2717)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Ricketts D: 5)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Untitled (DS585) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University, Bloomington (Ricketts D: 5) |
Statements
C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
0 references
s. XVI(in); 1500-1515
16. century
1500Gregorian
1515Gregorian
0 references
Binding: Not bound.
0 references
Figurative details, One leaf: King David in profile kneeling in prayer on a crenellated terrace outside a gothic tower, a view of a street scene beyond including a woman carrying two jugs (probably in allusion to Bathsheba’s bathing, II Samuel 11: 2) and a man riding away on a white horse (probably Uriah the Hittite returning to Joab carrying the letter which ensures that Uriah will be killed...
0 references
Layout, One leaf: Full-page composition on the verso within a border 115 mm. by 79 mm., a central miniature in a gently arched compartment 80 mm. by 45 mm.
0 references
Manuscript note: There is a second leaf from the same manuscript Book of Hours in the Lilly Library, Ricketts D: 6.
0 references
One leaf: The stems are painted in trompe l’oeil as if three dimensional and floating just above the coloured grounds, on which they are casting shadows, characteristic of the so-called ‘Ghent-Bruges’ style of the end of the fifteenth and especially early sixteenth century. The painter has plucked stock patterns from repertoires familiar to the Master of the Older Prayerbook of Maximilian I...
0 references
One leaf: Latin.
0 references
One leaf: Image intended for binidng into a book of Hours opposite the opening if the Penitential Psalms.
0 references
28 June 2023
0 references
28 June 2023
0 references